Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell